Monday July 17, 2006 6:50 am Lethbridge Alberta Sunrise 5:42 Sunset 9:33 Hours of daylight: 15:51

From rear window	South patio
Both images taken at noon

A. Morning Musings

6:50 am

The temperature is currently 7 C with a high forecast of 30 C. The sky is clear.

We went for a walk yesterday and I held back on extra snacking. It is a start.

 

B. Plan

Immediate
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
Chores	Fill mortar cracks in brickwork near garage front door	1 hr
	Buy 2 sheets of 3x4 plywood	1 hr
Technology	Make notes for chap. 3 of "Switching to the Mac"	1 hr
	Begin reading "iPhoto"	1 hr
	Test Olympus TCON-17 Tele Conversion lens	1 hr
Model Trains	Assemble oil loading platform	2 hr
Literature	Begin reading "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"	1 hr
Later
Chores	Take cement blocks to landfill	2 hr
	Fill cement cracks in garage floor	2 hr
	Investigate water softeners for home	2 hr
	Build 4 more book boxes
Technology	Read manual for cell phone	1 hr
	add keywords to iPhoto records
	digital photography
	try using extender lens and monopod	2 hr
Mathematics	Larson "Calculus"
	Read "The Computational Beauty of Nature" Chap 2	1 hr
	Gardner "The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles"
History	Continue reading "Citizens"
	Watson "Ideas"
Model Trains	Add blue backdrop to layout	2 hr
	Review layout for under the table turnouts
	Purchase an NRMA gauge and some terminal blocks while in Edmonton
	Wire lower mainline track for a power block

C. Actual/Notes

12:05 PM Another glorius summer day. Not a cloud in the sky and no wind. We went for an early morning walk in the coulee this morning. It is about a 10 minute walk from our front door to the coulee and the round trip takes about an hour - more if one has a camera and is looking for birds. I finally got around to trying out the Olympus tele conversion lens which increases the zoom capability by a factor of 1.7. The results were stunning! Here are a few images:

robin	rabbit
Spotted Tohee	Enlarged
Gray Catbird	Mourning Dove ?
American Kestrel	Chipping Sparrow

I completed repairing the mortar around the bricks near the garage door. That completes that project.

Before
After

3:50 PM I now have the plywood for the book boxes. And I have a Mac version of Filemaker Pro installed so I can now access my databases in OS X.

D. Reflection